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The Pop GNOME Shell theme.

This is the GNOME Shell theme that goes along with the Pop GTK Theme. It's built and managed separately so that changes in one don't necessarily require building unrelated components. This also allows cleaner builds and easier maintenance.

Required Components

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Pop GNOME Shell supports GNOME 3.18, 3.24, 3.26, and 3.28

• GNOME-Shell >= 3.18.3
• Pop GTK Theme*

Note:

• Pop GTK Theme isn't necessarily a requirement, but it is required to select the theme in tweak tool.

Recommendations

• For GTK, use icons alongside Pop Icon Theme
• For fonts, use:

Window Titles: Fira Sans SemiBold 10

Interface: Fira Sans Book 10

Documents: Roboto Slab Regular 11

Monospace: Fira Mono Regular 11

Installation

Pop is intended to be installed through your distribution package manager.

sudo apt install pop-gnome-shell-theme

It's also recommended to restart the GNOME Shell after applying the theme of your choice.

Enter the Shell's command launcher

Alt + F2

This will restart the Shell after you hit Enter

r

Installation from Git Source

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1. If previous versions were installed/existed, remove them first.

sudo apt remove system76-pop-gtk-theme
sudo make uninstall
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Pop,Pop-Eta,Pop-Nokto,Pop-Nokto-Eta}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Pop,Pop-Eta,Pop-Nokto,Pop-Nokto-Eta}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Pop,Pop-Eta,Pop-Nokto,Pop-Nokto-Eta}

2. Install build dependencies

You can either try

sudo apt build-dep pop-gnome-shell-theme

Or, use this to install all dependencies in one go:

sudo apt install sassc inkscape optipng libglib2.0-dev-bin

3. Generate the theme files.

make clean
make

4. Install the theme.

sudo make install

Public License

GPLv2.0

Note:

SVG files are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Special Thanks to

Nana-4, the developer of Materia. tista500 and the Adapta Theme Project: https://github.com/adapta-project/